Intro  

Bogdan and I met in 1998/1999 running around the Yahoo! chatrooms. I was looking for new friends who loved watching South Park and The X-Files. We stumbled over each other in one of the two rooms and hit it off. So we added each other to our ICQ contact lists and kept in touch through that and ditched the chat rooms.

For years we frequently chat on ICQ. I can't tell you how much harddrive space I wasted with chat logs that were automatically saved from ICQ. We talk about anything and everything. Jokes, complaints, discussions, X-Files, Simpsons, fake Britney Spears photos, etc. Now we use Yahoo Messenger, AIM, and even MSN Messenger.

Fast forward to May 19, 2001 and I set up E Vs B (today E&B). It's a website and joint weblog for the both of us to rant and ramble on. If we feel like saying something to the other but is currently not online to speak to, we post it here. I just wanted to share our lovely, funny & quirky little friendship to the world.

In the future we hope to find the time out of our semi-busy lives (school takes most of our energy) to get off our lazy asses and travel to visit each other. I know for a fact that by train and bus from Connecticut it takes about 10 hours to get to Bogdan in Montreal. Bogdan knows the basic route to my town since he went to Cape Cod on vacation this past summer. We know, we're two clearly insane people so SHUT IT!

Fictitious Bog Interview with Oprah

*Oh-oooh-oh-oooh-oh-praaaaah*

O: Welcome back. We have with us today one of the two contributors to E&B, a quite unpopular web log that had about two or three people talking during the past few weeks. Please welcome Bogdan Dragut.
*audience stares in silence*
B: So why am I here?
O: Well we just about finished interviewing all the fucked up mothers in America, and Dr. Phil won’t come on the show anymore since he’s successful. So tell us about yourself. You’re what? 19?
B: I’m uuuh 21.
O: Right yeah ok. Where have you done your studies?
B: I did elementary and part of high school in Romania. Then, I moved to Canada, and I finished cegep with a DEC in Health Science.
O: Cegep?!
B: It’s a level of education between high school and university. I first did a year in Creative Arts, and then I moved into Science.
O: Oh, I see. What made you change your mind?
B: My parents tried and tried to make me switch, and in the end they succeeded. My mother used brainwashing tactics every day. She was very, very insistent. In the end I realized I didn’t care anymore.
O: So… you’re a complete wuss, a pushover.
*B stares without saying a word*
O: Are you still in school?
B: Yes, I’m trying my best to survive in Biochemistry at McGill University in Montreal.
O: You’re not very bright are you…
B: I’m lazy.
O: Right. So do you at least have any famous friends? This conversation is getting really boring.
B: I don’t have real friends. Ok, maybe one or two.
O: What’s your problem?
B: I’m eev-uhl.
O: Are you dating anyone?
B: I’ll tell you what I say to all my friends: none of your fucking business *smile*
O: We’ll cut that in editing, assface! What do you plan to do with your life?
B: I have no idea. I have no goals. I aim low so I won’t be disappointed. I have low expectations concerning almost everything. I wasn’t expecting much from this interview, and so I’m not as pissed as I should be.
O: Ok we’re done. You are a loser. I am rich. We’ll end up on a quote from a show that's not half-bad even if it often makes fun of me: keep watching the stars because you’re never gonna be one! Goodnight. No, but how tall are you?
B: 5 feet 11 inches and 2/3, 6 feet with shoes on.